21 sats \ 0 replies \ @DaveC 4 Mar \ on: Can We Revive Empathy in Our Selfish World? (2019) mostly_harmless
maybe when everyone can step off the fiat treadmill, they'll have a chance to say hi.
US money supply has been expanding at a minimum of 7% per year for the past 100 years.. CPI is 100% irrelevant.
CPI is such bullshit though... Australia is ~10% every year, don't care what you say. It's always at least 10%.
If I read it once... I vaguely understand the points made but can't argue them. I really need to listen + read + write notes to absorb the info.. especially if it's a new/novel idea to me.
Quick thoughts as I listen - I'm not an expert.. but this seems like FUD.
"Rather than trying to fix the problems with Bitcoin, the community has decided to simply ignore them and create a different set of problems with the Lightning Network."
No... to "fix" the problem, necessarily would involve trade-offs.. trade offs no sensible person wants to make on L1.
Price volatility is not a problem.. certainly not one to be solved by engineering. Price is a reflection of the subjective valuations of network participants.
The reason bitcoin is the base layer of lightning is because bitcoin is fair, secure, valuable, decentralized etc. we can't just use "anything"
There are risks of custodial services centralizing on network.. that will be up to the users.. and to the extent that creates a problem, solutions to move away from custodial services will be developed.. it's still very early on. Plus its an open and permissionless protocol.
"both parties must agree to setup a channel, that is the opposite of permissionless"
No it isn't. That's called mutual voluntary exchange.
If there is a dispute between a lightning payment, it just settles back to the base chain.. not sure of the particulars here so I could be enlightened.
More decentralization of LN doesn't mean that a transaction will have to hop through more channels.. the opposite in fact. The network is much larger, with more nodes, and we get significantly higher successful routes now.
Government could attack lightning through calling them payment services/banks etc and regulation.. yes, we'll see if they do and if they can enforce it.
Started out on Nostr today.
Started with the newly released Amethyst app for Android. It was working okay.. but started to crash on launch. Still not working.
I moved onto Iris.io - it's pretty nice looking already.. however for some reason it has not carried over the majority of my follows/followers.. but it did carry over all my posts etc. Very strange - any ideas? 😅
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